EVERYBODY calls him the little prince, or the princeling, without us having encouraged that. It’s like people just see his lil face and think “AH, his little highness!”

So what was the point of him, other than making the lives of the disadvantaged more difficult? Was the cruelty the point?

I should not have had to do that. More than a dozen students depended on me for their academic assistance, and that’s not to speak of students assigned to my colleagues. Furthermore I guarantee that my hourly for the work-study position I was doing was MUCH cheaper than this admin guy’s salary.

he read them. I said I wasn’t busy, since all of my tasks were pending his approval, so I could sit there all day, if that was an accommodation he needed. He rubber stamped everything right there, and he was visibly afraid of me for the next two and a half years.

accommodation requests, but in practice to delay and deny them. After getting fed up with his lack of response to my requests for approval, I one day went to his office, pulled the files he said he couldn’t find from a slush pile on his desk, placed them in front of him, and said I would wait while

Maybe because every single day a new insane thing happens so we couldn’t catch a breath even once?

I swear it’s like some kind of curse? Everywhere I go I WILL encounter whatever dangerous animals they’ve got, in the wild. Find me dead by tiger mauling if I ever go to India.

I should mention that I was in the water with the first two and the third was actively stalking me for quite some time before it made me aware of its presence.

Please go buy mine from MY shop if you want this, it’s so obvious how low quality the aliexpress one is too…

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Oh I’m sure some of them will have to operate an office printer at some point…

We’ve got a second hand behemoth of an MFP in my office that has a motion sensor, and makes a sound like you’re throttling a pit droid every time you approach

If you’re a big nerd like me you can read the process from the primary source, Il Libro dell’Arte by Cennino Cennini, a 15th century manual on everything an artist-craftsman would need to know how to do. I can talk for ages about historic pigments though 🤣

realized how much that would probably destabilize the economics across multiple trade routes, thus changing the course of the entire Renaissance. 🤷🏼‍♀️

French ultramarine has finer particles and is more uniform, and is slightly redder, whereas natural ultramarine trends greenish. I was once asked what I would do if I was magically transported back in time to the Middle Ages and I said “invent French ultramarine 5 centuries early”, but then